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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• Tragic Life • Literary position • Selected Works • Evaluation and conclusion
Elements of Gothic in Poe’s Fiction
• Grim setting
– Landscapes are often reflections of character’s mind.
– Unusual buildings, extremes of nature, eccentric works of art
• Last 12 years of life worked as a journalist, editor and creative writer.
• Led a poverty-stricken life, and died in a drunken stupor
Literary Position
Short and Tragic Life
• Born in Boston, son of traveling actors • Mother died, deserted by Father at the age of
two, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan • Constant disagreements with his steຫໍສະໝຸດ Baidu-father • Drinking and gambling difficulties kept him
– Very few of his stories take place in America; most take place in Europe or Never-never-land.
Other elements of the Gothic
• Hidden evil
– Unspeakable, mysterious crimes, including incest and parricide
from college education after a brief study at University of Virginia
Short and Tragic Life
• admitted at West Point in 1830, but got himself expelled by missing classes and roll calls.
• Obsession with Death
– Ghosts, blood, body parts
• Deformity
– the grotesque: people who don’t look right
Evaluation
• Poe remained the most controversial and most misunderstood literary figure in the history of American literature.
• Caused a final separation between Poe and his stepfather
• 1836 married his 13 year old cousin, whose early death may have inspired some of his writing.
• Emerson dismissed him in three words “the jingle man” (打油诗人)，Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable. And Whitman was the only famous literary figure present at the Poe Memorial Ceremony in 1875.
4. Gold-Bug (1843)
《 金甲虫》
Poems 5. Annabel Lee （1849）
6. The Poetic Principle (1850)
《安娜贝尔•李》 《诗歌原理》
Features of his works
• Gothic elements • Deep analysis of human psychology (He noticed
• Father of modern short story • Father of detective story • Father of psychoanalytic criticism • Founder of science fiction • Master of horror fiction
Selected Works
Short stories
1. The Fall of the House of Usher(1839) 《厄舍古屋的倒塌》
2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1841) 《莫格街谋杀案》
3. The Stolen Letter（1841） 《失窃的信》
subconscious of human mind nearly one hundred year before Freud. ) (He was also the first American author who took neurotic characters as main characters in his stories.) • Precursor of detective stories (e.g. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”) and science stories
• Today, Poe’s particular power has ensured his position among the greatest writers of the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
• Tragic Life • Literary position • Selected Works • Evaluation and conclusion
Elements of Gothic in Poe’s Fiction
• Grim setting
– Landscapes are often reflections of character’s mind.
– Unusual buildings, extremes of nature, eccentric works of art
• Last 12 years of life worked as a journalist, editor and creative writer.
• Led a poverty-stricken life, and died in a drunken stupor
Literary Position
Short and Tragic Life
• Born in Boston, son of traveling actors • Mother died, deserted by Father at the age of
two, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan • Constant disagreements with his steຫໍສະໝຸດ Baidu-father • Drinking and gambling difficulties kept him
– Very few of his stories take place in America; most take place in Europe or Never-never-land.
Other elements of the Gothic
• Hidden evil
– Unspeakable, mysterious crimes, including incest and parricide
from college education after a brief study at University of Virginia
Short and Tragic Life
• admitted at West Point in 1830, but got himself expelled by missing classes and roll calls.
• Obsession with Death
– Ghosts, blood, body parts
• Deformity
– the grotesque: people who don’t look right
Evaluation
• Poe remained the most controversial and most misunderstood literary figure in the history of American literature.
• Caused a final separation between Poe and his stepfather
• 1836 married his 13 year old cousin, whose early death may have inspired some of his writing.
• Emerson dismissed him in three words “the jingle man” (打油诗人)，Mark Twain declared his prose to be unreadable. And Whitman was the only famous literary figure present at the Poe Memorial Ceremony in 1875.
4. Gold-Bug (1843)
《 金甲虫》
Poems 5. Annabel Lee （1849）
6. The Poetic Principle (1850)
《安娜贝尔•李》 《诗歌原理》
Features of his works
• Gothic elements • Deep analysis of human psychology (He noticed
• Father of modern short story • Father of detective story • Father of psychoanalytic criticism • Founder of science fiction • Master of horror fiction
Selected Works
Short stories
1. The Fall of the House of Usher(1839) 《厄舍古屋的倒塌》
2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue(1841) 《莫格街谋杀案》
3. The Stolen Letter（1841） 《失窃的信》
subconscious of human mind nearly one hundred year before Freud. ) (He was also the first American author who took neurotic characters as main characters in his stories.) • Precursor of detective stories (e.g. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”) and science stories
• Today, Poe’s particular power has ensured his position among the greatest writers of the world.